The Occupy Wall Street protesters may be gone from Zuccotti Park, but the police barricades remain — and now one business is on the verge of closing.
No store has struggled with the barricades more than the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall St., which laid off 21 workers at the height of the protests in late October and on its last leg.
“Unless we get a Hail Mary, it’s a matter of days, maybe a week or two,” Marc Epstein, the cafe’s owner, said Wednesday.
While the NYPD removed some of the barricades several weeks ago, many still block off sections of Wall and Broad streets near the New York Stock Exchange, and downtown businesses are not happy.
The Milk Street Cafe, a kosher international food hall which opened in June, lost 30 percent of its sales after the anti-greed protests started in September.
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I feel very bad for him, it’s from HK’B but H’yisbarach should send him a refuah and hatzlacha so the he can make a parnassah to support his family even more so than he ever dreamed.
Nebach. Does the owner even understand the meaning of the expression he used? It may be a football expression but that doesn’t necessarily make it ok to use in this context.
Perhaps he would be better off davening instead for a Mizmor L’Dovid and his prayers will be answered.
Maybe Mr. Epstein should ask his landlord for some temporary relief. I believe the owner of 40 Wall Street is Donald Trump.
The protesters are gone but the barricades are still up and the restaurant may close. How much more obvious can it be that the closing is because of the police reaction and not the protesters?
#2: it’s a colloquial phrase that really doesn’t have any religious connotation in the way he used it. I think you’re nitpicking, and doing a poor job at it.
Reach down, and untwist the underpants.
Hullo! “Hail Mary” doesn’t have any religious connotation?
Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.